Word: merest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there in the film even the merest hint that in France, England, the United States-wherever the Communist Internationale was functioning-the Communist parties systematically sabotaged the Allied cause. One would never know that the most determined and noisy isolationists in this country before June 22, 1941, were in the Communist-led American Peace Mobilization...
...reasons ranging from purest merit to merest popularity, ten books stood head & shoulders above the madding crowd...
When, contrary to plan, winter found the Germans deep in Russia, Adolf Hitler vetoed the plea of his generals that a winter line be established, and tried twice to keep the offensive. But German aerial operations over Russia dwindled to the merest trickle. Tanks and trucks, oil frozen, bogged in the deep snow and were abandoned in wholesale lots...
Those who crowded up front saw a pudgy man with cheeks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy gray hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. From the sleeves of his blue sack coat extended long cuffs, half hiding the small hands folded placidly across his middle...
Italy. "The boastful Mussolini has crumpled already. He is now but a lackey and a serf, the merest utensil of his master's will...